What some people dont seem to understand is that u HAD to know about the exploit to use it. It is very unlikely that u came across it by accident, because u didnt just need to klick the potion twice, but u had to klick the potion make a diffrent stack and klick that stack again! so there are almost none who got across the exploit by accident. And saying that u shouldnt get banned because its Blizzards fault, is like saying: well its ok to rob a bank if the door's open. And to the people who say that u HAD to exploit because lvling takes soooo long, u are doing something wrong u can get to 110 (for example) in 19 hrs by just questing and doing dungeons. I mean if u got banned just man up to the fact that u cheated and got caught and stop whining about it.
I agree with the punishment when there are players that clearly know are taking advantage from a bug. But we never get any compensation for all of the bad bugs that affects us in the game. In old times Blizzard even gave game time for bad experiences like that.
31 days ban for 15 lvls on 1 char ? while others leveled up multiple chars from 1/20 - 120 ? really ? ban me for 2-7 days sure.but dont give me the longest ban..my case is nowhere near those guys. Its like convicting a kid that stole candy from a supermarket with a mass murderer/rapist with the same sentence. Does this sound fair to u Blizzard ?
Oceanic MDI is going to be hilarious.Gossip I'm hearing suggests as many as half the teams are at least one player down.
Ah yeah this is a real prio not the scam bot that has been spamming /1 for over a month that i have reported every day
luls. exp pots. I haven't used any on my Zandy and I lvl just as fast. people are weird.
This is on Blizz to do a better job in QA and produce better software. Sure, fix your mistakes quickly, but taking punative measures against players for finding then using your own negligent coding to their advantage is asinine, counterproductive, and squashes creativity. Given the record profits recently announced, there is zero excuse for weak design QA.A bug is not an "exploit" like so many other creatively discovered and unforseen combinations in WoW's history. Give it a smile and a nod, then move on.Blizzard defenders can't stand on any moral high ground of "ethics" on this either, because Blizz still allows selling "carries" and "multiboxing" which regularly affect other players and item values.I'm not impacted by this at all, but F-U on this choice Blizz. This isn't right.
To me the biggest issue with this ban wave is that Blizzard STILL has not made any comments about this. The bug was usable for over 2 DAYS and they did nothing. Thousands of people tweeted and commented to Blizz about this bug, asking if it was a bug or if it was intentional, trying to get answers. THEY DID NOTHING. They did not fix the bug, they did not respond to anyone, and still have not. Very coincidental that it happened during the new race unlock, and also interesting that they issued the bans AFTER the Q&A on Thursday. Obviously the people that took advantage of this should be punished, but Blizz knew about it being broken and did and said nothing.
I love the fact that people are trying to defend cheating, and yes, This exploit is cheating. The way I see it, Blizz really should of done worse, I think my favorite comment so far is the guy who says "Banned for a week. Not renewing my sub." lol, and I am not flaming, just thought it was kinda funny.
I understand the why but it's still pretty stupid IMO especially since the game doesn't really begin for most players until they hit the max level. Up until 120 it's just prep work, then once you hit 120 it's the grind to get good enough (or lucky enough) gear to do heroics/mythics/raids. If someone zooms past me in levels... ok, not like there are any words firsts to attain lol.
As the person who got the 'unofficial' world first heritage set for the Zandalari, it *!@#ing pissed me off how people were ahead of me using this exploit. By the time I was level 80, there was only ONE person ahead of me, that being Method Josh, and he of course, was using the exploit. I streamed the entire thing, and I knew about the exploit, but I didn't use it. I even had 300+ of the currency needed to buy the potions, so I could've done it if I wanted, but I only used one at a time like intended.Of course, Blizzard made a huge mistake by putting it in the game by patch release, but even then, the players that did this 100% deserved this. It's in the ToS, and QUITE OBVIOUSLY an exploit, seeing as it's not achievable unless you split them, which people wouldn't usually do. So stop crying, if you did this, you deserved it. But the people who only did a few levels, I don't think a harsh punishment should be enforced on them.
This is ultimately blizzards fault for failed testing, and they should of accepted it and fixed it themselves. Banning people just removes what little goodwill the company still has, if any.Look at all the exploits you could do in Apex legends, people streamed them doing it too, did any of them get banned? no, cause its the developers fault, and they fixed them.sure it's exploiting, but what exactly are people getting here? Levels? Wow's leveling system has been trash and useless since LK, its the most boring/derivative thing that players can do.Wow dev's programmed this game, and they put the bug in, own up to your own mistake and realize you can't blame your players.